{PDF} Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems: 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2006, Bologna, Italy, June 14-16, 2006. Proceedings Massimo Bartoletti, Pierpaolo Degano, Gian Luigi Ferrari (auth.), Roberto Gorrieri, Heike Wehrheim (eds.)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems, FMOODS 2006, held in Bologna, Italy in June 2006.

The 16 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper and abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. Among the topics addressed are component- and model-based design, service-oriented computing, software quality, modeling languages implementation, formal specification, verification, validation, testing, and service-oriented systems.